The mission of the OSCE informs about the increasing number of violations of the cease-fire near Lugansk, where before long be preserved in respect of calm.

"A significant increase in violations of the ceasefire regime was observed in government-controlled areas to the North-West of Lugansk ", - reported in the daily report of SMM.

For example, observers emphasize the tense situation in Crimea (43 kilometers from Lugansk), Novorossiskoe (53 kilometers from the city), Muratovo (50 kilometers from Lugansk) and Orekhovo-Donetsk - 44 km from Lugansk. Explosions and gunshots were recorded as fifteen and 16 August, added the report.

in the Village Lugansk, 16 kilometres North-East of Lugansk, checking the messages about the attacks, observers saw craters from shells coming from the South, is added to the report.

In controlled militia districts mission Workers also recorded the destruction from the shelling. So, in the village Lombada in the South-West of Lugansk explosions damaged several houses and transmission lines, besides the destruction caused by running from howitzers shells of calibre of 122 mm.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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